The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-15
THROUGH THE STATE. X
Accidents and Incidenta in NOst yirginin
ls1I s'N.f and Vicinity IIaF tggt-1aaf q


~! and Vicinity. g5.
Canton has commenced laying firo bricl,
pavements on some other principal streets.
Buckhannon Post No. 47G. AR, hue
changed its name from Buckhanuon Ia
Colevis. ga'.. go - n NJ
The Board Of Education OF Franklin
township, Monroe county, O1io, offers q
reward OF $50 for information that will
lead to the arrest Of the porson who fred
the achool house in ths. district, which
was entirely destroyed. X. 4
Charles 7. Farmer, Of We.zsl county.
while out hunting had his gun dischsrped
accidentally and received tho full charge
Of heavy huckshot In bis arm above tbs
elbow. The bone waa SO badly shattered
that amputation wss necessary. "A Iila7
Bailey Roach, young man Of Weba.er.
Taylor county, has been arrested by the
Government authorities charged with
sending obscene literature through the
nails to a young lady lie had been paving
attention to and who Tilted him. q 4 4
William Hill, who was arrested on the
first day Of the Ritchie county isir for seII.
ing liquor without license, was taten to
Ularksburg tho next day By United States
Marshal sehon and deputiep, fined Sl00
and sentenced to thirty days In isil. h
Colonel Hanway, OF Mononga!ia c county.
shipped to Philadelphia this week / / .O00
pounds Of wool, all o: which he grew him.
sell on his big sheep farm in that county.
The largest shipmea. ever made from
that county ba'ofe by any one man was
6C0O pounds. g5554 ~ - =
Officers are in pursuit OF one John Mar.
tin, son Of Allen Martin, who liyep in
summera county, near Hinton, on a charge
Of. murder. After being separated from
bis wife Tor several yeass, it Is alleged,
Martin attempted a reconciliation with
her, and failing to do 60, went to her
house at night and shot her, killing her
instantly. 80. - :.
Ed O'Donnell, chairman OF the Weizal
county Democratic Executive Committoe,
postmaster at Burton and local politician
OF some note, has gone crazy. He became
20 violent that he had to DO taken to the
lnsane Asylum at Weston thia week.
While at Grafton en- route, he gave his
guards considerable trouble. '2 ~
Hesekiah Turley, OF the Forks Of Coal
hanawha county, placed in the bureau
drawer 81 900. q payment which had been
mado him, lacking tho drawer, The
money was seen on Saturday, but the fol.
lowing Tuesday. upon going to the bureau.
it was discovered that the lock had been
broken and the money stolen. Not know.
ing when the money WAS stolen there is
no clue to the thief. SIS IN. Z.
An order haa been made by the War
Department. transferring Colonel Rope,e
now superintendent Of tho Natiops, Gems.
tely in West Grnf.on, to the charge Of tho
cetuetery at Alexandra, Va, and NJ. M.
Jeferys back to the Grafton ceneterv.
The change has been made on account al
the fact that Mr.. Jsf1srya mud his family
have suffered i'll health ut Alexsndria. end
Colonel Rogers was willing Tor ths ex.
change. III i. 49, a
Tho railroad station at sardis has sga;n
been broken into and robbed. This time
1t was done while Agent Paden was at
dinner and SIS so waa gotten. Suspectinp
man whom he had seen loatiuc about
tho place before he went sway, he 20. n
constable and started eff on hunt and
soon found the thief. He gave his name
as John Krees, OF Pittsburgh, and banded
over all the. money but So 50, which ho
had spent lor hat. u 'ar5tr IN a
The thirty-ninth annual esssion O, tho
Washington county, Pa, TeRche rs Insti.
tute is to be hold IN Washington this wear
October 1928 inclusive. Under q Law
pasaed by the Pennsylvania Legislature
last year, oil teachers in the county are
paid Tor time spent at theae institutes.
Tho law also requires oil schools to be
closed during that period. This Washing.
ton instituteD have always been intsreat.
ing, but this years promises to be moro so
than usual. The following instructors
havo been engaged and will be present:
Prof. Alexander E. Frye, of Hyde Park,
Macs; Thomas NJ. Ballet, Rosdinr, Pa:
Hon. Hedny Houck, Harriabure, Pa:
Prof. George .. Little, Washington, D.
O.; ]. D. Moilat, President Washington
and Jefferson College. Evening Lecturer
will be delivered as follows: Hon, r. G.
Horr, "The Labor Problem" Geo,ee ",
Gable, "Old Creole Days" James Whit.
comb Riley, "Chsrscteristics OF Western
Humor." Rev. William II. Milbu.n The
blind man elcquent, Sargent Smith
Prentiss;" Bill Nye, The New south,n
Vocal aud instrumental muulc by Prof.
E. r. Excel, Chicago; Niles Alice NAV
Esty, Boston; Prot. J. @. Arnold, Weah.
ington. s,' GI3